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Pramp 2.0 — Peer-to-peer practice for live technical interviews
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Wish I had Pramp when I was prepping for my coding interviews, way back then. What's new in the 2.0 version?
@dglbr thanks for the question. Here are the main new features in Pramp 2.0:
Same-day Interviews - no need to wait more than 24h to get a practice interview. You can now schedule an interview with peers on-demand.
New Questions - new questions asked by real companies.
Simplified & personalized scheduling - no need to choose 3 different time slots to schedule an interview. Simply select one that works for you best.
Instantaneous and better peer matching - we redesigned our matching algorithm, so now each practice peer is picked especially for you, within seconds.
Code execution and test cases for all main programming languages - easily validate the correctness of your code, with our in-browser code runner and test cases.
Wonderful product, very useful and intuitive. Make hiring process so much easier and productive.
@ilankasan our pairing algorithm takes into account users' professional background, practicing needs and past performance on Pramp in order to match peers in way that maximizes their learning. The algorithm is adaptive. The more interviews you take, the better we become at matching you peers.
Thank you @datarade for the hunt.
Hi all! A co-maker of Pramp here. One of the mistakes that software engineers (especially senior ones) often make is to think that having great coding skills and experience guarantee success in technical interviews. This is incorrect. Being a good programmer has a surprisingly small role in passing programming interviews since interviewing and coding are fundamentally two different skills. The good news is that interviewing is a skill that can be learned simply by practicing. Or to be more specific, by doing technical mock interviews. That’s why my co-makers and I created Pramp - to make it easy for engineers at all levels to practice with like-minded peers whenever they want, and as many times as they want. Pramp is 100% free.
We'd love to answer any questions you have!
@keyul couldn't agree more. Practicing alone can help you only so much. To be really prepared for interviews - and coping with the pressure of a total stranger looking over you shoulder and evaluating you - one-to-on technical mock interviews is most effective way of practicing.
Great hunt, scheduled an interview, though there is some parse error when I try to add it to my Google calendar. Do have a look.
@gadgeek thank you for the kind words. We are checking the parse error as we speak. Thanks for letting us know.
Thanks for the shout out everyone!
btw, since we love using Pramp ourselves, we sometimes join users for a practice interview, so I hope to meet you all personally on Pramp :)
Nothing makes us happier than knowing that within a short period of time we’ve, literally, helped tens of thousands of developers land software engineer jobs. We are fortunate to see Pramp growing fast and the difference it makes on the lives of software engineers. Check out this blog post written by a Stanford grad who used Pramp:
https://lkloh.github.io/technica.... Here’s one paragraph from it:
“… I continued using Pramp with more success, and many other interview partners. It’s a lot easier to focus and push through a hard problem when there is a real human being there judging you. One of my interview partners, even turned out to be a hiring manager from Amazon, and I must have impressed him sufficiently as he later recommended me for an on-site interview at Amazon! So, users of Pramp, treat every interview like its a real one – because I essentially got to bypass the phone screen at Amazon through Pramp.”
Looks nice but I question how many non-noobs will be able to fill the opposite side. I feel it will mostly be filled with amateurs. Looks cool though.
@erickbarron86 thanks for the comment. It's actually quite the opposite. Close to 70% of Pramp users have 2 or more years of software development experience. If anything, non-noobs are the ones that need Pramp the most since their interviewing skills have likely atrophied over the years. Coding and interviewing are largely orthogonal skills. Being good at the former doesn't guarantee success in the latter. How do you practice for you technical interviews?
@erickbarron86 @rafizkv
"Interviewing skills have atrophied" = noob, depending on the state of atrophy.
I think the accurate way to think about this is what % of users understand the basics enough to be good judges of the others' performance.
Maybe an initial automated coding test could weed out people who haven't done enough solo study yet?
GL!
@zachtratar thanks for the feedback. We take couple of measure to guarantee high quality prep for peers. First, we send users the questions (and the answers) they'll be asking their peers 24h before the interview begins. That gives them plenty of time to prepare as interviewers. Second, we almost always match between users who have the same pogromming language preferences. Third, interview session have test cases, so even a user isn't sure whether their peer's algorithm is correct they can easily verify it. Forth, we try whenever possible to assign you as an interviewer (but never as an interviewee) a question you've seen before. So the more times you've asked the better you become at asking it. Why don't you give a try and see for yourself? :)
Great product. Being an interviewer helps a lot at understanding what things interviewer expects. Thanks. Is it possible to add some functionality, so if both candidates agree to share their contacts or something. Because sometimes you see really good candidate, and maybe have a job position for them
@raihasen fantastic idea! I've just added it to our roadmap. Thanks for the feedback.
@david_q_jin thanks for the kind words. We are already hosting thousands of interviews every month and one of the things we noticed was that many of users are being invited by peers they met on Pramp to onsite interviews at the companies they work at, skipping resume and phone screening. It's probably only natural for us to productize this and connect candidates and companies directly. Do you have any suggestions for us?
Wow, absolutely love this. Definitely exactly what programmers, new or old, are looking for in interview prep
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